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Format: Book
Pages: 304
Publisher: Birkhauser
Date Published: Jul 2006
Stock Code: 58723
Binding: Paperback
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After 9/11 the United States government created the Department of Homeland Security. Its primary task is to keep the terrorist threat in permanent view. To do this, it developed a five-stage warning system based on the colors green, blue, yellow, orange, and red: 5 codes.
The hypnotic character of this system prompted the editors of this book to conceive a history of architecture based on these 5 codes. The book gazes spellbound into the abyss of the indissoluble entanglements and connections between culture and fear, which determine our lives more than ever today. Urban and regional planning, urbanism, and architecture are more and more powerfully marked by this culture of fear throughout the world. Thus the essays in this book address questions of security, paranoia, violence both imaginable and otherwise, and how these issues are reflected in architecture and the delineation of space.
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